It is time to demand our privacy - or we lose it

1:59 AM,
Dec. 19, 2013

Eugene Robinson

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Eugene
ROBINSON

It seems our elected officials have no intention of reining in the National Security Agency's mad-scientist quest to know everything about our communications and movements.

Months after Edward Snowden spilled the beans, the NSA - whose mission is supposed to be foreign surveillance - is still compiling a comprehensive record of our domestic phone calls.

We hear a lot of patronizing talk from President Obama and other officials about how healthy it is that we're finally having a debate about surveillance and privacy, about security and freedom. The subtext, however, is clear: Get over it. ...